Wednesday night I'm sitting in a hotel room, about to talk to my wife via instant messaging, and she asked me how I felt. I wrote back that, suddenly, I wasn't feeling well at all. By the time she wrote back to ask me what was wrong, things were going pretty badly. I was starting to feel shaky and somewhat off balance, and I was starting to get really cold. I wrote back saying I had to sign off and was getting into bed, turned the heat in the room to full blast, and got under the covers as the first chills hit my body.

Oddly enough, I went through this same thing earlier this year, and once again it came on really fast. The chills just run through the entire body, and there's really nothing one can do about it. I'll admit it was scary being in a hotel room all by myself, but the last time I was with my wife and there wasn't anything she could do. I knew getting into the shower wouldn't help, as the chills were inside my body and I'd tried that before, and I'd also tried putting a heater right on me before, along with an electric blanket, but I didn't have either of those available to me in a hotel room.

It finally ceased 3 hours later, but I never broke a sweat, even though the room was extremely hot by this time (when you're really cold, even hot air doesn't feel hot when you're breathing is), and I was wearing my heavy sweats. But I started feeling comfortable, and that was enough. I ended up staying in bed 10 hours, rare for me to begin with, but especially rare while being out of town, and still woke up tired. I might have dozed a couple of times while I was shivering, but not for long.

Later on, a pharmacist friend of mine asked if I also had some nausea, and said if I did I probably had some food poisoning. Well, that's extremely possible. That day I'd started out eating one egg at home, lunch and food at a reception after a seminar, and then mini burgers along with french fries in the hotel. I told my wife later that the burgers seemed a bit off, but I can't legitimately blame anything on that because of all the other stuff I ate. The last time I had this same problem, I just don't remember eating anything all that odd, and right now can't remember if my wife and I even went out to eat, though it's possible since it was a Sunday. However, the swiftness of it all is astounding, which tells me that it had to be something eaten relatively recently before the event.

Anyway, this is now going to make me a bit more conscious of where I'm eating and what I'm eating, because if I don't learn something from two episodes, I'm a moron. Unfortunately, I'm stuck eating food out when I'm away from home, as there's no facilities for cooking in the room, and I'm gone for a week at a time. If I have to settle for McDonalds or Wendy's every day becaue it's a known commodity, much as I'd hate that, well, one does what one has to do, right? Ugh!